Now ,when I Was A Lad........

[Jennings]

Now when I was a lad, we didn't have la-di-dah kits like that. Two bits of wood in a box, and if you were lucky it told you what you were supposed to make from it. That's when modellers were modellers.

You had wooden blocks?  Luxury!  Why, when I was a lad, we didn't even have trees!  We had to make models from stones, stuck together with tar we dug from a tar pit with our own bare hands!

No, these kids today don't have *annny* idea what it was like...



J (Honorary Yorkshireman)

[HOG]

The Rat wrote
"BAH! When I were a lad all we got was a box wi' a saw, a knife, and a balsa tree seed in it. We had to grow our own tree in them days, cut off branches we needed, and shape 'em ourselves"


YOU GOT SEEDS.?......AND TOOLS!! You lucky Barfbun
This side of the pond we had to search for a box to make a model out of and boil the bones for the glue

[upnorth]

I once tried to make and F-86 and a Vought Cutlass from terra cotta in high school art class.

They looked OK until they came out of the kiln from the first firing, I decided not to waste glaze on them.

[Ian the Kiwi Herder]

That's when modellers were modellers.

Thats when modellers were carpenters...

And that is one of the funniest lines I've read here in years.... well done young man..... Well of course we had it tough......

Ian

[bluntie]

[/QUOTE]All ya gotta do is carve away everything that doesn't look like a Mig.
Good one Terry!   ,hey its good to see that monty python is known to us all.
on the strength of that i hereby propose a talk like a yorkshireman day. 'ey up!!

[Howard of Effingham]

Looks better than the Airfix kit 

that's NOT difficult!      

still look at the label with the list of other kits. you know we are still waiting for some decent kits of them in any scale!    

[Dork the kit slayer]

Thats is why when Revell and Aurora etc brought out there kits ,the lable on the box read...Pre shaped parts,ready to build no cutting and sanding.

Anyone remember the "Veron" kits  I tried a Grumman Tiger and a Tstreak when I was  at school.............................      

[NARSES2]

Anyone remember the "Veron" kits  I tried a Grumman Tiger and a Tstreak when I was  at school.............................    

Oh thank you VERY much ! Here's me just getting in the Crimbo spirit and you bring up that name from the past      

[Radish]

Weren't the instructions in that boxing, Chris, in Latin....was during the Roman Occupation, right?  

[Ian the Kiwi Herder]

Weren't the instructions in that boxing, Chris, in Latin....was during the Roman Occupation, right?

Dork told me yesterday they were on tablets of stone..... mind you we had been drinking so I could have mis-heard him !

Ian

[NARSES2]

Weren't the instructions in that boxing, Chris, in Latin....was during the Roman Occupation, right?

You obviously had the re-pop, mine were in Cuniform

[Radish]

I like ladies in cuniform

[kitnut617]

you guys kill me    

[Jennings]

...its good to see that monty python is known to us all.

Bloody 'ell, I wasn't expecting a sort of Spanish Inquisition!



J (on top of whose telly rests a tiny penguin since about 1983)

[HOG]

Hi Bluntie,
Jokes aside, that old box brought back memories for me. As a kid I had an uncle who was a bloody marvelous carpenter who used to make terrific furntiure and specialised in carts wagons caravans etc  for fun. Any way he tried to get me involved in woodwork in which I failed miserably. Its the grain. I can`t cut a straight line in wood even now, but give me a lump of plastic and I can make you a piece of roughcut timber lookalike easy. Now I haven`t tried anything like this for around 45 years and I`ve been thinking of building a Horten 10 tailess luft45 jet for ages and so I thought I`l give it a go.




So far its like someone said "All ya gotta do is carve away everything that doesn't look like a Mig. " and now the fun starts. If I get anywhere I might post this as a project if only to let people know how many fingers I lost

regards Gary